CalyxOS, the Android-based, privacy-focused operating system, is back after nearly a year-long pause following the founder and tech lead’s departure.

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    14 days ago

    Oh, I know. They were fully transparent about the whole thing from the beginning, and vowed to put safeguards in place to prevent this similar thing from ever happening again. I’m not knocking them for this release at all.

    It’s still hard for me to transfer my things from one phone to another, and having only one device now makes it that much harder. I’m open to suggestions, though.

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      13 days ago

      I’m in the same boat. They suggest Seedvault, which I haven’t tried yet. I’ll do the factory reset when I don’t crucially need my phone, I’ll take it as an opportunity to declutter a bit. I don’t need much for a functional setup. The painful part will be manually re-entering the config for my WebDAV server. Definitely not ideal, though.

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        13 days ago

        I’ve never had any luck with SeedVault, but I’m sure it’s me. If a dumbphone is able to support Signal, that would really be all I would need.

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            13 days ago

            Thank! I actually saw that when it first came out, but Signal doesn’t officially support it, which means the app could stop working at any point. That’s an unfortunate dealbreaker for me. The lack of a QWERTZ or QWERTY keyboard is a bummer, but not a dealbreaker.